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Ah, the things I just love about other drivers... (For Friday 13/1/06)
- Inability to stay in own lane, even going 20km/h in peak hour traffic.
- Trucks in right lane. All the time. Regardless of speed or location of their turn off.
- Thundering past 10km/h over the speed limit, leap in front of a car, then slow to 10km/p below the friggin limit, incase there are speed cameras around that didn't witness their spectacular dash before.
- Failure to yeild when it would actually be easier and maintain flow FAR better if they did. Includes moving into centre lane from right lane just as a car in the left lane needs the centre lane to avoid a parked car.
- Changing lanes without indicating OR looking, to make sure neither party has any unnecissary pre-accident angst about the situation.
- When stopped, having the person behind beeping and waving rampantly, because his wonderful management skills got him stopped dead centre of a 'Keep Clear' zone.
- Having the same driver do the same thing on train tracks, I mean, for crying out loud. Clearly they didn't tell this dude what a Darwin Award was for when they told him he was nominated and not to be late to the award ceremony.
Edit: Saturday 14/1/06.
- Turning across incoming traffic exactly as the light goes amber, not taking into account cars entering the intersection at the time of the light change, thus risking the bonnet of the oncoming car and their own passenger side.
- Being a taxi and thus thinking you are god of the road (note: this title is reserved for my Barnabus, these diluded fools.) and doing the above.
- Having the nerve to cross the line and turn on a red light after the above car has conveniently cut off all oncoming traffic for you, leaving the oncoming car stopped in the middle of the intersection with the opposite traffic now having a green light.
You guys all rock. The general population seems to be so stupid that they would probably forget to breathe if it wasn't an unconcious reflex. And as Chris points out: contraception seems to allow the smart people to avoid breeding, and selects for the stupid ones who can't seem to use it right. Darwinism really should flex its muscle on the human genepool sometime soon, instead of these random pithy cases it currently insists upon.
- Inability to stay in own lane, even going 20km/h in peak hour traffic.
- Trucks in right lane. All the time. Regardless of speed or location of their turn off.
- Thundering past 10km/h over the speed limit, leap in front of a car, then slow to 10km/p below the friggin limit, incase there are speed cameras around that didn't witness their spectacular dash before.
- Failure to yeild when it would actually be easier and maintain flow FAR better if they did. Includes moving into centre lane from right lane just as a car in the left lane needs the centre lane to avoid a parked car.
- Changing lanes without indicating OR looking, to make sure neither party has any unnecissary pre-accident angst about the situation.
- When stopped, having the person behind beeping and waving rampantly, because his wonderful management skills got him stopped dead centre of a 'Keep Clear' zone.
- Having the same driver do the same thing on train tracks, I mean, for crying out loud. Clearly they didn't tell this dude what a Darwin Award was for when they told him he was nominated and not to be late to the award ceremony.
Edit: Saturday 14/1/06.
- Turning across incoming traffic exactly as the light goes amber, not taking into account cars entering the intersection at the time of the light change, thus risking the bonnet of the oncoming car and their own passenger side.
- Being a taxi and thus thinking you are god of the road (note: this title is reserved for my Barnabus, these diluded fools.) and doing the above.
- Having the nerve to cross the line and turn on a red light after the above car has conveniently cut off all oncoming traffic for you, leaving the oncoming car stopped in the middle of the intersection with the opposite traffic now having a green light.
You guys all rock. The general population seems to be so stupid that they would probably forget to breathe if it wasn't an unconcious reflex. And as Chris points out: contraception seems to allow the smart people to avoid breeding, and selects for the stupid ones who can't seem to use it right. Darwinism really should flex its muscle on the human genepool sometime soon, instead of these random pithy cases it currently insists upon.